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Jamie Chadwick
Chadwick at Brands Hatch, 2019
NationalityUnited Kingdom British
Born (1998-05-20) 20 May 1998 (age 26)
Bath, Somerset, England
Championship titles
2015
2018–19
2019		British GT Championship GT4
MRF Challenge
W Series

Jamie Laura Chadwick (born 20 May 1998) is a British racing driver currently competing in the F3 Asian Series and the W Series. She won the inaugural W Series championship in 2019, and joined Williams Grand Prix Engineering as a development driver in the same year.[1]

Early life

Jamie Chadwick was born in Bath, before growing up in the Isle of Man.[2] Her father Michael is a property developer, and her mother Jasmine is an Indian-born businesswoman.[3] Chadwick was eventually educated at Cheltenham College,[4] a co-educational boarding and day independent school in the spa town of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. She currently resides in London, United Kingdom.[5]

Career

2010–16: Early career

Chadwick started her motorsports career in kart racing at the age of 11, following her brother Oliver into the sport. She broke into car racing in 2013 when she turned down a trial with the England under-18 hockey team to compete at the Ginetta Junior scholarship weekend, where she triumphed to win a scholarship for the 2013 Ginetta Junior Championship season. Chadwick raced alongside her brother for the JHR Developments team, finishing tenth in the championship. She remained in the series for 2014, taking five podium finishes during the year to finish eighth overall in the championship.[6]

In March 2015, Chadwick was announced as one of the drivers for Beechdean Motorsport in the 2015 British GT Championship, competing in the GT4 class.[7] Chadwick and her co-driver, Ross Gunn, took two wins and five podiums during the season in their Aston Martin V8 Vantage, including a win in the Silverstone 24-Hour race. This made Chadwick the first female and youngest ever champion of the British GT Championship.[8]

Going into 2016, Chadwick stayed in British GT Championship, driving in the GT4 pro class with Generation AMR SuperRacing for the first, second and sixth rounds., before returning to Beechdean Motorsport to race in the pro-am class with Paul Hollywood for the final three races of the season.[8] Chadwick ultimately finished fifteenth in the championship.

Chadwick also competed in race 9 of the 2016 VLN season, driving the Nexcel AMR Aston Martin GT8 and finishing third in the SP8 class.[9]

2017–19: Transition to single-seater racing

Chadwick moved into single-seater racing in 2017, joining Double R Racing to compete in the 2017 BRDC British Formula 3 Championship. She achieved her first and only podium of the season with a third place finish at Rockingham in the fifth round of the championship, ultimately finishing ninth overall for the season.[10] For the 2018 season, Chadwick remained in the BRDC British Formula 3 Championship, moving to Douglas Motorsport. In August, she became the first ever woman to win a British F3 race by claiming victory in the second race at Brands Hatch, and finished the season in eighth place.[11]

Chadwick also entered the 2018 24 Hours of Nürburgring, driving the Aston Martin Vantage V8 GT4 in the SP8 class alongside Jonathan Adam, Alex Lynn and Pete Cate. The team finished fifth in class and sixty-third overall.[12]

Chadwick proceeded to sign on for the 2018-19 MRF Challenge season in November 2018, and topped both initial practice sessions.[13] Chadwick had success in the early rounds of the championship, finishing second in three of the five races in the opening weekend in Dubai. She followed this up with wins in six of the remaining ten races at Bahrain and Chennai to take the title, becoming the first ever woman to win the MRF Challenge.[14] Chadwick also participated in two test drives with the NIO Formula E team in Riyadh and Marrakesh.[15]

2019–present: W Series, Williams F1 and Prema Powerteam

Chadwick at the W Series final at Brands Hatch

In March 2019, Chadwick was announced as one of the entrants for the inaugural season of the W Series, and followed this by participating in the opening three races of the 2019 F3 Asian Championship.[16][17] Chadwick was also announced as an official junior driver for Aston Martin Racing, extending an existing unofficial relationship that dated back to 2014.[18] At the first W Series race at Hockenheim, Chadwick put in a dominant performance, leading both practice sessions and qualifying on pole. Despite briefly giving up the race lead to Alice Powell, Chadwick came from behind to take the first win in W Series history.[19] Two weeks later at Zolder, Chadwick again started on pole, however lost the lead to Beitske Visser from the start, and had to fight off Powell after locking up and running wide later in the race, ultimately holding onto second place.[20]

Two days after the race in Zolder, Chadwick became the second driver to join the Williams Driver Academy, signing on as a development driver for the team.[21] In the next W Series race at Misano the following month, Chadwick qualified second behind Fabienne Wohlwend, but passed her on the start and held off pressure from Visser to take her second W Series win.[22] Chadwick then finished in third place behind Marta García and Visser at Norisring, after a long battle with the latter that saw her lose second place on the start and make a late lunge in an attempt to regain the place towards the end of the race.[23]

At Assen, Chadwick started and finished in third after again holding off late pressure from Visser.[24] In the non-championship reverse grid race the following day, Chadwick fought through the field to finish eighth after starting from the back of the grid.[25] Chadwick then entered the 2019 24 Hours of Nürburgring with Aston Martin, racing alongside Alex Brundle and Peter Cate in the Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4, finishing first in the SP8 class and twenty-seventh overall.[26] Chadwick entered the W Series championship decider at Brands Hatch with a 13 point lead on second placed Visser, and proceeded to start on pole for the third time. Despite defending the lead initially, she lacked race pace and lost positions to Powell, Emma Kimiläinen and finally Visser, however her eventual fourth placed finish was enough to hold off Visser and win the inaugural W Series title.[27]

In September, Chadwick joined Double R Racing to test drive their Euroformula Open car in Silverstone, with a view to a competitive drive in the series in the future.[28] The following week, Chadwick was announced as one of the competing drivers in the inaugural series of Extreme E in 2021.[29]

In 2020 Chadwick was awarded her first 10 of the 40 points needed to qualify for a Formula 1 super licence, having finished fourth overall in the 2019–20 F3 Asian Championship.[30]

On 16 June 2020, it was announced that she had joined the Italian outfit Prema Powerteam, to be one of Prema's four drivers in the 2020 Formula Regional European Championship.[31]

Racing record

Career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles FLaps Podiums Points Position
2013 Ginetta Junior Championship JHR Developments 20 0 0 0 0 221 10th
2014 Ginetta Junior Championship JHR Developments 20 0 0 0 5 287 8th
2015 British GT Championship - GT4 Beechdean-AMR 7 2 0 0 5 164.5 1st
2016 British GT Championship - GT4 Generation AMR SuperRacing 6 0 0 0 0 29 15th
2017 BRDC British Formula 3 Championship Double R Racing 24 0 0 0 1 264 9th
2018 BRDC British Formula 3 Championship Douglas Motorsport 24 1 0 0 2 260 8th
2018–19 MRF Challenge Formula 2000 MRF Racing 15 6 0 5 9 280 1st
2019 W Series Hitech Grand Prix 6 2 3 0 5 110 1st
F3 Asian Championship Seven GP 3 0 0 0 0 18 14th
2019-20 F3 Asian Championship Absolute Racing 15 1 0 2 4 139 4th

Complete W Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 DC Points
2019 HOC
1 		ZOL
2 		MIS
1 		NRM
3 		ASS
3 		BRH
4 		1st 110

References

  1. ^ "Britain's Jamie Chadwick wins first-ever W Series title". The Independent. 11 August 2019. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Jamie Chadwick | Driver". W Series. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  3. ^ Brown, Oliver (10 August 2019). "Jamie Chadwick aims to fuel her F1 ambitions with W Series title". The Daily Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
  4. ^ "Jamie to race with Paul Hollywood". Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire. 7 April 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  5. ^ "About - Jamie Chadwick Racing | Official Website". Jamie Chadwick Racing. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  6. ^ Paice, Simon (22 November 2014). "2014 Ginetta Junior Championship Season Review". The Checkered Flag. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  7. ^ de Menezes, Jack (28 March 2019). "W Series 2019: Five British drivers including Jamie Chadwick and Alice Powell named in 18-driver line-up". The Independent. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  8. ^ a b "Chadwick joins Generation AMR SuperRacing for Brands and Rockingham". British GT. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  9. ^ "CLASS PODIUM FOR JAMIE CHADWICK IN VLN RACE 9". Jamie Chadwick Racing. 10 October 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  10. ^ "British F3 - 2017 Championship Standings". BRDC British F3 Championship. 24 September 2017. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  11. ^ "British F3 - 2018 Championship Standings". BRDC British F3 Championship. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  12. ^ "Endurance 2018 24 Hours of Nürburgring". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  13. ^ Suttill, Josh (15 November 2018). "Jamie Chadwick leads MRF Challenge entry list for Dubai". Formula Scout. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  14. ^ "FIRST LADY: JAMIE CHADWICK ON HER MRF CHALLENGE 2019 CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE". Overdrive. 9 March 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  15. ^ Soulsby, Chris. "Formula E: NIO Formula E hands Jamie Chadwick second test outing in Marrakesh". Motorsport Week. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  16. ^ "W Series announces its driver line-up". W Series. 28 March 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  17. ^ "RACES / RESULTS / 2019 - F3 Asian Championship Certified by FIA". www.f3asia.com. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  18. ^ "Chadwick signed as Aston Martin junior driver". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  19. ^ "Hockenheim W Series: Chadwick fends off Powell in opener". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  20. ^ "Zolder W Series: Visser takes commanding win over Chadwick". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  21. ^ "Jamie Chadwick joins Williams Racing Driver Academy". www.williamsf1.com. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  22. ^ Morson, Lucy. "Misano W Series: Chadwick resists Visser to extend points lead". Autosport.com. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  23. ^ "Norisring W Series: Garcia scores maiden victory". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  24. ^ "Assen W Series: Kimilainen passes Powell to score first win". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  25. ^ "Assen Non-Championship Race Report". W Series. 21 July 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  26. ^ "Aston Martin Vantage GT4 takes debut Nürburgring 24-hour class win - News - Racecar". www.racecar.com. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  27. ^ "Brands Hatch W Series: Powell wins finale, Chadwick champion". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  28. ^ Wood, Elliot (6 September 2019). "Chadwick targeting EF Open race appearance after "fantastic" test". Formula Scout. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  29. ^ "Extreme E: Jamie Chadwick to race in climate change series". 12 September 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  30. ^ "Jamie Chadwick earns super licence points in the Formula 3 Asian Championship". BBC Sport. 24 February 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  31. ^ "JAMIE CHADWICK JOINS PREMA'S FORMULA REGIONAL EUROPEAN TEAM FOR 2020 CHAMPIONSHIP". 16 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Ross Wylie
Jake Giddings
 British GT Championship
GT4 Champion
2015
With: Ross Gunn 		Succeeded by
Graham Johnson
Mike Robinson
Preceded by MRF Challenge Formula 2000
Champion
2018–19 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Inaugural
 W Series
Champion
2019 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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